Hot Illustrations for Youth Talks: 100 Attention-Getting Stories, Parables, and AnecdotesYour search for lively illustrations to spice up your youth talks is over. Hot Illustrations for Youth Talks is here! Veteran youth worker and nationally known speaker Wayne Rice has carefully selected and crafted 100 of the best stories, parables, and anecdotes available anywhere. Rice has collected these illustrations form his own files and from files of some of youth ministry's best speakers Mike Yaconelli Tony Campolo Dewey Bertolini Chap Clark

It can make those who are not confident about speaking—of anything

discover a healthy sense of identity from God and feel empowered to face the future with a new security and confidence

and their examples are not perfect

but in training consistently--training with the spiritual disciplines

making His question relevant and vital

So you want your wife to

How did we get into this mess

And will he ever trust her again if she lies to him now

Worn down by his loving insistence

it propels her into a world completely outside her comfort zone: prison ministry

No matter what stage of the "hormonal cesspool" you're splashing through

with far more than the halfway house at stake